Advertising display-board.



D. E. EWING.

ADVERTISING DISPLAY BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 25. 1911.

9 //GET ONE 015' THESE FREE\ AT 9 GLOBE FURNITURE co $0,

Patented Mar. 5, 1918,

DAV E. ENG, 0F 1 rmre'rorr, rtnnans.

VlEE-TKSING DISPLAY-B0 Iu hpeciflcatlon of letters lPatent.

Patented Mar. 5, fdll do hpplication filed ternary 2t, 1917. Serial No.IMAM.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID E. Ewrnc, a citizen of the United States,residing at llartington, in the county of Cedar and State of Nebraska,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AdvertisingDisplay-Boards; and l do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact. description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use-the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an inexpensive advertisingboard to be displayed on automobiles and at the same time to serve as acold protector for the radiator,

although this is a secondary consideration. With this general object inView, the invention resides in the specific construction of the devicehereinafter fully described and claimed, the descriptive matter beingsupplemented by the accompanying drawing which constitutes a part ofthis application and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device with the flap thereof inlowered position;

raised; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the plane of the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates a signboard formed of a single piece of heavy cardboard of a size and shape tocompletely cover the front of the automobile radiator upon which it isto be used, it being my intention to manufacture these boards l ofdifi'erent sizes and shapes for application to all styles and makes ofcars Without marring the appearance thereof. At the center of its upperedge and at its lower corners, the board 1 has eyes 2 punchedtherethrough while at the center of its lower edge it is formed with asubstantially rectangular notch 3 to receive the starting crank of theautomobile. Substantially midway between its upper and lower edges butpreferably spaced closer to the former than to the latter, the board 1is formed with a plurality of vertically elongated horizontally spacedopenings 4 which permit the passage of air to the radiator.

Cords 5 are anchored in the eyes 2 for securing the board 1 in placeupon the radiator, this anchoring being preferably done by folding thecords upon themselves, pass- Fig. 2 is a front elevation with the flaping the folds through the eyes and then inserting the free ends of saidcords through the looped portions thereof as shown clearly in thedrawings. The cords, however, might otherwise be anchored.

A rectangular horizontally elongated flap 6 formed of a single piece ofheavy cardboard is hinged at one edge to the sign board 1 adjacent thelower ends of the openin s 4i, said flap being adapted to swing upward yover said openings as shown in Fig. 2 to prevent the passage of airtherethrough when the car is standing idle. Slots 7 and 8 are formedrespectively through said one edge of the flap 6 and the board 1 andstrips of metal 9 are passed through said slots 7 and bent uponthemselves to form hinges for the flap, the ends of said strips beingpassed through the slots 8 and clenched to secure them in place. Thismeans of hinging the flap is preferable on account of its simplicity andlow cost of manufacture.

A metal eyelet 10 is carried by the edge of and lower turn buttons 11and 12 respectively carried by the board 1, these parts serving to holdthe flap in either raised or lowered position, although other meanscould well be employed for this purpose. The portions of the sign board1 above and below the openings 4 thereof are used for advertisingpurposes and although the matter below said openings will be covered bythe flap 6 when the latter is lowered, this same advertising matter maybe printed on what is then the outer face of said flap as shown in thedrawings. lFhe opposed side of the flap may also carry advertisingmatter as indicated in Fig. 2. intend to supply difl'erent businessestablishments with the devices printed so as to advertise the articlesor merchandise which they have for sale so that they may give one ofsaid devices free of charge with purchases equaling in value anypredetermined amount. I also intend to print upon the devicesinformation to the effect that one may be obtained free of charge fromthe establishment whose advertisements appear thereon and by this meansit is believed that the device will be a highly efficient advertisingmedium.

I claim:

An advertising device c mprisin a board shaped to cover an automobileradiator and having a vertically swinging flap, said board my hand inpresence of two subscribing withaving advertlzising matter oitiervltl'hich salild nesses. fla swin s w en open said ap avin t e Sar e advertising matter as that obse nred DAVID EWING 5 thereby when open andthen displaying such Witnesses:

advertising matter. EDWIN E. COLLINS,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set C. M. J onus.

